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In GoDaddy's 180º press release:
"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation"
"Go Daddy and its General Counsel, Christine Jones, have worked with federal lawmakers for months to help craft revisions to legislation first introduced some three years ago."
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/23/godaddy-no-longer-supports-...
But they can access your password, stored in plaintext http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3110634
Are you kidding or is it true? You can get a lawsuit for this? (I don't live in the US)
Where can you go to look for a UX/UI designer that can help with the usability of your website? Dribble is ok to showcase a nice logo, a nice button etc, but fails for non-cosmetic driven design.
What good alternative Translation APIs are out there?
Also, its difficult to monetize the API, for example, with ads.
I like Facebook's approach to comments (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comme...).
Pros:
- Most people are already signed-on in Fb, no friction to start commenting.
- There is a hierarchy of posts, similar to HN, reddit, etc
- Not anonymous.
Cons:
- Who owns the data? Probably Facebook.
My favorite RGM is still OK Go's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
The one in the article seems too electrical for me.
Many thanks for sharing your experience :)
About where to place the illustrations: That's a great challenge for us. We are trying to get as much feedback as possible from kids, dads, professional storytellers, psychologists, writers, professors etc, to learn where's the best spot to place the illustration. There's no consensus, but we hope to have a formed opinion soon.
About the layouts: iBooks renders EPUBs in a funny way. We have improved many times the way illustrations are formatted each time updating our books in the iBookstore. We are in the process of updating once again our styling template, using new CSS3 properties supported by iBooks. We are learning along the way and improving our books a lot! (If you send me an email to victor at pictorical com I will send you an updated version of Rapunzel when we have it ready.)
Thanks for buying the book, supporting Paola and giving us feedback. Please do a "like" to Paola (the Chilean artist who draw Rapunzel) to send her thanks.
for all or just for me?
Cheers!
Thank you! Please help us to spread the word :)
Thanks Peter! Please help us to spread the word :)
The artists get half of the profits i.e. half of the money that we receive from the store. So, for a $1.99 book, Apple will get $0.59, the artist $0.70 and we get $0.70.
We are now working on the Kindle conversion, and we will have it -hopefully- by late May. And also in a print-on-demand hook so you can sell paper (or dead-tree) books in Amazon as well.
Great feedback, I will check the quotes. Thanks bugsy.
Yes, please tell me if your kids like them. Would be good field-testing ;)
That's a great idea, thanks Ruchi!
Thanks! I will try that tomorrow. Thanks for the good wishes.
Hola!
1. We will probably be selling longer books a little bit more expensive. We can't forget we are competing against free ebooks!
2. Yes, we will sell illustrated paper books in the near future. And also t-shirts and all sort of things with your favorite illustrations.
Thanks for the feedback!
Thank you! We did the website itself in 3 days. The company, business model, publishing platform, payment system etc we have been working on it for 6 months part-time and since december full-time.
The coming soon section is a good idea, maybe we can do a "work in progress" where artists show sketches of their illustrations and future readers can comment on them.
The bio and portfolios are coming soon!
Thanks for the compliments on the design... I did it myself and I'm an engineer so I need a little of reassurance there :)
Hello, we want to share with the HN community our startup, Pictorical.
We are two nomadic entrepreneurs from Chile, and a growing community of artists worldwide. We illustrate classic stories, publish them as ebooks (in Apple iBookstore- Kindle and Google coming soon) and sharing the profits with the artists fifty-fifty. Artists then can earn money doing art, thats quite difficult for them.
We look forward to your constructive feedback!
If an apple is not good for you, what is?
The iPhone jack can output an analog signal. What if you convert a digital video to an analog signal that can go out through the jack? The transmitter would just amplifies that signal.
I would really like to see RobotRollCall in the Khan Academy.
Founders Visa is missing. It was the perfect moment to introduce it. http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html
Some countries even pay you to come, see Chile and its $40k grant: www.startupchile.org
That's great, Art. That's exactly what I want to do. Thanks.
The line in question is a good example of law-fi literature:
"...that your website had 22,256 unique visitors in July 2010. Each visit represents a potential lost sale of our client’s patented invention at $149 per sale. This damage calculation exceeds $3.2 million per month in lost revenue."